Bridle-bit.



H. SGHLUETER.

BRIDLE BIT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY'28, 1914.

1,1 30,638, Patented Mar. 2, 1915.

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H. SGHLUETER.

BRIDLE APPLICATION FILED I I28, 1914.

1,,130,6-38. Pate ted M ,1915.

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HENRY scnnun'rnn, or SGRIBNER, NEBRASKA.

BRIIDLE-BIT.

To all whom it'may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY SCHLUETER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Scribner, in the county of Dodge and vState ofNebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bridle-Bits, of which the following is a specification. I f This inventionrelatesgtoimprovements in the class of bridle bits in which the cheek pieces or branches are extended in several different directions from the bit iron, for the purpose of affording a number of places at which the bridle straps and reinsmay be attached and thereby rendering the bit available for use in several different ways; and particularly to those bits which are adapted for use in a manner to develop jawpressure for preventing the animal from gripping the bit between the teeth; or in a manner to develop leverage, by cotiperating with the usual chain strap as in curb-bits; or to serve as a very mild bit, by a certain manner of suspending from the head stall and attaching the reins, which develops a direct pull of the bar against the mouth.

The object of my present invention is to so improve the construction of such a bit that it will be more effective in use as a awclamp bit; that it will be reversible as a curb bit to develop curb effects of different degrees of severity; that it will more accurately locate the straps at the points at which it is desired to attach them; and that it will be neater and more symmetricalin general appearance.

To these ends the invention. consists in the features of construction hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification-Figure l is an end view, Fig.

2 a front view, and Fig. 3. a plan view of a bit embodying the present invention. Figs. 4: to 7 inclusive are end views of the bit with the bridle and rein straps applied in the several different relations for which the bit is especially designed, in order to develop the several different efl'ects for which the.

bit is constructed; Fig. 4: showing thefljawclamp or very severe arrangement;.Fig. 5 the mild curb arrangement; Fig. 6the severe curb arrangement; and Fig. 7 the mild or straight pull arrangement.

The present bit, like bits heretofore known, has main cheek pieces or branches 1 of approximately circular form, swiveled I Specification of Letters Patent. I Application fi1edJ'u1y28,1914.- seam). 853,610.

Patented Mar. 2,1915.

at the ends of the mouth bar or iron 2, and

having at top, the suspending eyes 3 swiveled .to the cheek pieces 1, so that when the eyes 3-are suspended by the head straps 4, the cheek pieces 1 may rock inward against the jaws of the animal and force the jaws, to open under the tension that is being put upon reins'5, attached to the forward eyes 6, as illustrated in Fig. .4. One feature of the present invention consists in giving to the attaching rims 6? of the eyes 6, an outward deflection as shown in Figs. 2 and 3,

that will 1 develop an initial leverage and start the swinging movement promptly and withoutrequiring undue pull upon the reins 5. The swivels 3f oftheloops 3 are mounted in laterally offset lugs 3 to prevent encroachment ,of the swivels .upon' 'the jaw space. It has also beenproposed to extend the branches or checks 1, of a bit of this class, in other-directions, as for instance to provide eyes 7 for attachment of the reins as shown in Fig. 7, when a very mild or straight-pull effect is desired. I, therefore, make no claim to this feature per 86. But

another feature of the invention relates to the production of different curb effects, for which purpose the checks or branches 1 are further provided with loops 8 opposite the swivel loops 6, and interchangeablyadapted to receive eitherhead straps 4: or reins 5, so that the bit may be'inverted, and with suitably applied chin strap 9, serve as a mild or short-lever curb as shown in Fig. 5, or the severe or long-lever curb as shown in Fig.6; the swiveled'eyes3 having the efi'ect of increasing the leverage of the pull when receiving thereins 5 as shown in Fig. 6, and

of reducing the same when receiving the head straps and leaving the loops 8 for the reins, as shown in Fig. 5. In order to bring the chin strap in proper relation to the bit iron when the bit is suspended by the swivel, a chin-strap loop 10 is provided adjacent the vertical bar 10 as shown. When inverted from this position, the bit carries its chin strap in the same loop (but on the rearwardwalls thereof) as. the head straps.

The several attaching and suspending loops are arranged in pairs, at opposite ends of two diameters of the cheeks or branches and separated by quadrants of the circle so as to be reciprocally available for their intended services, and each loop embodies a reduced ring which confines the strap accurately at the circumferential point intended.

It will be noted that in any position there branches from a pull'on the reins and form 7 ing increased leverages from the bit iron, andsaid branches having attaching loops opposite'saidswivels, whereby the bit may be inverted and made to produce curb effects of; different degrees of severity.

2. A bridle bit comprising a bit iron and branches; the branches having suspending loops above the bitiron, jaw-pressing portions in rear of the bit irons, and rein-attaching loops forward of the bit iron, in position to develop a lateral turning of the branches from a'pull on the reins andforming increased leverages from the I bit iron, and said branches-having attaching loops Go iesoftIiiSpatent may be obtained for opposite said swivels, whereby the bit may be inverted and made to produce curb effects of different degrees of severity, verticalbars being provided between the swivel loops and the bit iron, and chin-strap loops being associated with said vertical bars 3. bridle bit comprising a bit iron and cheek pieces hinged to the ends thereof; each of said cheek pieces being constructed with a reduced suspending loop at each'end of its vertical diameterfapair' of rein-attaching loops at opposite ends of its horizontal diameter; the attaching loops on the vertical diameter being at different radial? distances from the-bit iron, and the bit'being adapted to have a chin strap associated with each suspending loop, whereby different degrees of curb-effect may be de-' veloped.

- T he foregoing specific'ation signed at Fro- 'i'nont, Nebraska, this'Zth day of July, 1914. V HENRY 'SOHLUETER- lVitnessesp, 1 lV. SANDERS,

FLW. BUTTON.

five cents each by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

